Amazing ! But shouldn’t they exclude Pluto ? I thought it was no longer considered a planet ?
Besides, it would be nice if they could make a difference (longer notes ?) for larger planets like Jupiter….

Walt

Pluto is occasionally closer to the Sun than Neptune.

Drf

@ Johan Van Loon: But it’s still a part of the Solar System. Perhaps SolarBeat 2.0 should include the other dwarf planets.

Diego

Extraordinario, interesante y creativo!

Wes

Johan, if you are complaining about Pluto’s inclusion, why do you have no issue with them including Ceres in the music box? That has never been a planet.

Edie B.

Well, Ceres was considered a planet for some of the 19th century; then it was demoted to “asteroid.” Now it’s considered a dwarf planet, like Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. I only know this because I have a five-year-old space nut.

Mike Lemonick

This is just insanely brilliant.

tom

So, what is the beauty of a minimum font size, you are not able to zoom?
can’t see it. nice ideas anyway :-)

http://www.dearjemk.posterous.com JemK

This is beautiful, such an interesting way to illustrate the solar system. Good work!

this is great, i’m 15 and do astronomy gcse and have already covered the solar system in our course, but this is really cool and i’m gonna tery and show my teacher and i think she too will be entranced by the simplicity… genius

Charlie

How beautiful. It’d be really cool to see a blues scale version, too.

http://www.superapprentice.com Jeff Collins

This is actually really cool. Perhaps you can add a few of the exo planets to the mix?? :) Jeff